Pats Pulpit
The Patriots enter draft day with new additions to their decision-making apparatus.
The New England Patriots will enter the 2025 NFL Draft with a largely different group of decision makers than in 2024.
New head coach Mike Vrabel may be the loudest voice in the room in the new arrangement. The longtime Patriots linebacker is back with the team in a new capacity after spending 2024 working with the Cleveland Browns. He was the head coach in Tennessee for six seasons before being fired following the 2023 season amid reported disagreements with the organization’s front office.
Vrabel brings front office man Ryan Cowden with him, someone he worked with for five years in Tennessee. He took the vice president of player personnel title, one he held from 2018 to 2022 with the Titans.
Returning for a second season under the executive vice president of player personnel title is long-time front office man Eliot Wolf. He was in Green Bay from 2004 to 2017 before spending 2018 and 2019 with the Browns. He has been in New England ever since, receiving a promotion last season with the departure of Bill Belichick.
Other names involved in decision-making include director of player personnel Matt Groh, entering his fourth year in the role and fifteenth year in the organization since starting as a scout in 2011, and John Streicher, Vrabel’s director of football administration from Tennessee, who spent last year with the Rams.
With a mix of new and old faces, the Patriots are ready for this year’s draft. Are you confident they’ve assembled the right group?
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